"some communities have ""hakafot"" without subsequently reading the Torah.) During the ""hakafot"", most or all of the synagogue's Torah scrolls are removed from the Holy Ark, and carried around the Bimah by members of the congregation. On the day of Simchat Torah (in Judaism, day follows night), some communities repeat the seven rounds of song and dance to varying degrees, while in others the Torah scrolls are only carried around the Bimah (seven times) symbolically. Afterwards, many communities have the custom of calling every member of the congregation for an ""aliyah"", which is accomplished by repeatedly re-reading the day's five"
"different reason; most posit that God is not a being with a will; thus, they maintain that no will can be revealed. The Torah is composed of 5 books called in English Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. They chronicle the history of the Hebrews and also contain the commandments that Jews are to follow. Rabbinic Judaism holds that the Torah extant today is the same one that was given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. Maimonides explains: ""We do not know exactly how the Torah was transmitted to Moses. But when it was transmitted, Moses merely wrote it"
"it remains crucial to their understanding of the unity and authority of Scripture. The Torah (or Pentateuch, as biblical scholars sometimes call it) is the collective name for the first five books of the Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. It forms the charter myth of Israel, the story of the people's origins and the foundations of their culture and institutions, and it is a fundamental principle of Judaism that the relationship between God and his chosen people was set out on Mount Sinai through the Torah. The development of the Torah began by around 600 BCE when"
"been finalized at the Council of Jamnia in 70 CE, although this is uncertain. In Judaism, the term ""Torah"" refers not only to the Five Books of Moses, but also to all of the Jewish scriptures (the whole of Tanakh), and the ethical and moral instructions of the rabbis (the Oral Torah). In addition to the Tanakh, there are two further textual traditions in Judaism: Mishnah (tractates expounding on Jewish law) and the Talmud (commentary of Misneh and Torah). These are both codifications and redactions of the Jewish oral traditions and major works in Rabbinic Judaism. The Talmud consists of"
"Torah Torah (; , ""Instruction"", ""Teaching"" or ""Law"") has a range of meanings. It can most specifically mean the first five books (""Pentateuch"") of the 24 books of the Tanakh, and is usually printed with the rabbinic commentaries ('). It can mean the continued narrative from the Book of Genesis to the end of the Tanakh (Malachi), and it can even mean the totality of Jewish teaching, culture and practice, whether derived from biblical texts or later rabbinic writings. Common to all these meanings, Torah consists of the origin of Jewish peoplehood: their call into being by God, their trials"
"the revelation at Sinai, since it is impossible to read the original text without pronunciations and cantillation pauses. The combination of a text ( ""mikra""), pronunciation ( ""niqqud"") and cantillation ( ""te`amim"") enable the reader to understand both the simple meaning and the nuances in sentence flow of the text. The Tanakh consists of twenty-four books: it counts as one book each Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and Ezra–Nehemiah and counts the Twelve Minor Prophets () as a single book. In Hebrew, the books are often referred to by their prominent first word(s). The Torah (תּוֹרָה, literally """"teaching""""), also known as the"
"as the ""Five Books of Moses"" or the Pentateuch, meaning ""five scroll-cases"". The Hebrew names of the books are derived from the first words in the respective texts. The Torah consists of the following five books: The first eleven chapters of Genesis provide accounts of the creation (or ordering) of the world and the history of God's early relationship with humanity. The remaining thirty-nine chapters of Genesis provide an account of God's covenant with the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (also called Israel) and Jacob's children, the ""Children of Israel"", especially Joseph. It tells of how God commanded Abraham"
"Ethel Jenner Rosenberg. Torah Torah (; , ""Instruction"", ""Teaching"" or ""Law"") has a range of meanings. It can most specifically mean the first five books (""Pentateuch"") of the 24 books of the Tanakh, and is usually printed with the rabbinic commentaries ('). It can mean the continued narrative from the Book of Genesis to the end of the Tanakh (Malachi), and it can even mean the totality of Jewish teaching, culture and practice, whether derived from biblical texts or later rabbinic writings. Common to all these meanings, Torah consists of the origin of Jewish peoplehood: their call into being by"
"Augustine of Hippo produced a piece called ""Questions on the Heptateuch"". Ælfric of Eynsham produced an Old English version of the Heptateuch. Heptateuch The Heptateuch (seven containers) is a name sometimes given to the first seven books of the Hebrew Bible. The seven books are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua and Judges. The first four of these are sometimes called the Tetrateuch, the first five are commonly known as the Torah or the Pentateuch, the first six as the Hexateuch. With the addition of the Book of Ruth, it becomes the Octateuch. The ""Enneateuch"" is the Heptateuch plus the"
"Heptateuch The Heptateuch (seven containers) is a name sometimes given to the first seven books of the Hebrew Bible. The seven books are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua and Judges. The first four of these are sometimes called the Tetrateuch, the first five are commonly known as the Torah or the Pentateuch, the first six as the Hexateuch. With the addition of the Book of Ruth, it becomes the Octateuch. The ""Enneateuch"" is the Heptateuch plus the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings (each pair of books counted as one, and not including the Book of Ruth)."
"including a familiar ""piyyut"" (liturgical song) entitled ""Usherers of Mercy"", recited before and after Rosh Hashanah in Selichot (Jewish penitential prayers). The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh is the Jewish scriptural canon and central source of Jewish law. The word is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the three traditional subdivisions of the Tanakh: The Torah (""Teaching"", also known as the ""Five Books of Moses"" or ""Pentateuch""), the Nevi'im (""Prophets"") and the Ketuvim (""Writings""). The Tanakh contains 24 books in all; its authoritative version is the Masoretic Text. Traditionally, the text of the Tanakh was said to have"
"font type, with the Modern Hebrew text. At the end of each volume there is a section with tables of measures and weights aimed to be a reference to the reader. Up to October 2014 there have been published two volumes corresponding to the Torah or Moses' Law, and to the former prophets. The Torah, of dark red hardcovers and 760 pages, includes the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy; the second volume, dark blue and with 621 pages, includes Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings. Being a new translation from the one phase to another of the same"
"and tribulations, and their covenant with their God, which involves following a way of life embodied in a set of moral and religious obligations and civil laws ('). In rabbinic literature the word ""Torah"" denotes both the five books ( ""Torah that is written"") and the Oral Torah (, ""Torah that is spoken""). The Oral Torah consists of interpretations and amplifications which according to rabbinic tradition have been handed down from generation to generation and are now embodied in the Talmud and Midrash. According to rabbinic tradition, all of the teachings found in the Torah, both written and oral, were"
"the 2nd century BCE. In modern usage, ""Torah"" can refer to the first five books of the Tanakh, as the Hebrew Bible is commonly called, to the instructions and commandments found in the 2nd to 5th books of the Hebrew Bible, and also to the entire Tanakh and even all of the Oral Law as well. Among English-speaking Christians the term ""The Law"" can refer to the whole Pentateuch including Genesis, but this is generally in relation to the New Testament where ""nomos"" ""the Law"" sometimes refers to all five books, including Genesis. This use of the Hebrew term ""Torah"""
"Books of the Bible Different religious groups include different books in their biblical canons, in varying orders, and sometimes divide or combine books. Christian Bibles range from the 73 books of the Catholic Church canon, the 66 books of the canon of some denominations or the 80 books of the canon of other denominations of the Protestant Church, to the 81 books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church canon. The Tanakh (sometimes called the Hebrew Bible) contains 24 books divided into three parts: the five books of the ""Torah"" (""teaching""); the ""Nevi'im"" (""prophets""); and the ""Ketuvim"" (""writings""). The first part"
"and put on tefillin, and afterwards read the readings as set out below, with the preliminary meditations set out below."" Chok l'Yisrael Chok l'Yisrael (Hebrew חק לישראל) is a compendium of Jewish texts designed for daily or weekly study. The work is usually published in book form in five volumes, corresponding to the five books of the Torah. It is divided into 54 sections representing the 54 weekly Torah readings, and each section is in turn divided according to the days of the week. Each daily section from Sunday to Thursday morning contains: The section for the night of Thursday"
"Hexateuch The Hexateuch (""six scrolls"") is the first six books of the Hebrew Bible: the Torah (""Pentateuch"") and the book of Joshua. The term ""Hexateuch"" came into scholarly use from the 1870s onwards mainly as the result of work carried out by Abraham Kuenen and Julius Wellhausen. Following the work of Eichhorn, de Wette, Graf, Kuenen, Nöldeke, Colenso and others, in his ""Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels"" Wellhausen proposed that Joshua represented part of the northern Yahwist source (""c"" 950 BC), detached from JE document by the Deuteronomist (""c"" 650–621) and incorporated into the Deuteronomic history, with the books of Judges,"
"considered the Torah known to us as composed of seven volumes in the Gemara ""The seven pillars with which Wisdom built her house (Prov. 9:1) are the seven Books of Moses"". Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus and Deuteronomy as we know them but Numbers was really three separate volumes followed by and the third text from there to the end of Numbers. The 85 letter text is also said to be denoted because it is the model for the least number of letters which constitute a 'text' which one would be required to save from fire due to its holiness. The"
"is made up of 7,055 Hebrew letters, 1,840 Hebrew words, and 136 verses, and can occupy about 240 lines in a Torah Scroll (, ""Sefer Torah""). Jews generally read it in late May or in June. As the parashah sets out some of the laws of Passover, Jews also read part of the parashah, as the initial Torah reading for the fourth intermediate day (, ""Chol HaMoed"") of Passover. In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or , ""aliyot"". In the first reading (, ""aliyah""), God told Moses to tell Aaron to mount the seven"
"with the following books, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings, as Deuteronomistic History. There is a growing recognition that Genesis developed apart from the Exodus stories until joined to it by the Priestly writer. The Torah (or Pentateuch) is the collective name for the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. According to tradition they were dictated by God to Moses, but when modern critical scholarship began to be applied to the Bible it was discovered that the Pentateuch was not the unified text one would expect from a single author. As a result, the Mosaic"
"any kind: the offender had to pay with his or her life"". It is also of note that the Bible required at least two or three witnesses to convict someone of a crime. Crime and punishment in the Torah The Hebrew Bible is considered a holy text in most Abrahamic religions. It records a large number of events and laws that are endorsed or proscribed by the God of Israel. Judaism teaches that the Torah contains 613 commandments, many of which deal with crime and punishment, but only the Noahide Laws apply to humanity in general. Most Christian denominations have"
"written at different times by different authors. All books of the Bible are not strictly religious in nature; for example, ""The Song of Songs"" is a love poem and, along with ""The Book of Esther"", does not explicitly mention God. ""Torah"" in this instance refers to the Pentateuch (to parallel ""Chumash"", חומש), so called because it consists of five books: Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. It is the core scripture of Judaism and Samaritanism, honored in these religions as the most sacred of scripture. It is sometimes called the ""Five Books of Moses"" because according to the Jewish tradition,"
"be required to save from fire due to its holiness. It also suggests that the inverted nuns may suggest the Hebrew word נֵר ""ner"", meaning 'a light'. The tractate Shabbat in the Talmud says regarding the inverted nuns: Sifrei explains these ""signs"": The Talmud continues, stating that as this section is a separate book, the portions of Numbers before and after it also count as books and thus the Torah contains seven books in total: Bar Kappara is known to have considered our Torah as composed of 7 volumes in the Gemara ""The seven pillars with which Wisdom built her"
"twelve princes, one of each tribe. The majority of modern biblical scholars believe that the Torah (the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) reached its present form in the post-Exilic period (i.e., after c.520 BCE), based on pre-existing written and oral traditions and ""contemporary geographical and demographic details but even more importantly from contemporary political realities"". The five books are often described as being drawn from four ""sources"" - schools of writers rather than individuals - the Yahwist and the Elohist (frequently treated as a single source), the Priestly source and the Deuteronomist. There is ongoing dispute over"
"any language and the recitation of the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-7) twice a day in any language, the binding of the tefillin and the fixing of the mezuzah (Deuteronomy 6:8-9), and the saying of Grace After Meals (Deuteronomy 8:10). Out of the 613 Mitzvot mentioned in the Torah, there are six mitzvot which the Sefer Hachinuch calls ""constant mitzvot"": ""We have six mitzvot which are perpetual and constant, applicable at all times, all the days of our lives"". In modern Biblical scholarship, six different law codes are considered to compose the body of the Torah's text: In Biblical criticism, these codes"
"Torah, the Nevi'im (the Prophets) and Ketuvim (the Writings), make up the Tanakh. The Tanakh is explained and supplemented by the Talmud, which is made up of two parts: the Mishnah (Oral Torah) and the Gemara (rabbinic commentaries and analysis). More recent work explaining Jewish law includes the Shulkhan Arukh, which was written in the 16th century. Traditionally, Jews believe that the Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai, to be passed on to the Jewish people. Scrolls of the Torah are copied by hand by specially trained scribes. Joseph Smith said, ""I told the brethren that the Book"
"Chok l'Yisrael Chok l'Yisrael (Hebrew חק לישראל) is a compendium of Jewish texts designed for daily or weekly study. The work is usually published in book form in five volumes, corresponding to the five books of the Torah. It is divided into 54 sections representing the 54 weekly Torah readings, and each section is in turn divided according to the days of the week. Each daily section from Sunday to Thursday morning contains: The section for the night of Thursday to Friday contains another 26 verses from the Torah portion for the week but no other passages. The section for"
"a basic, structured list of the central works of Jewish practice and thought. Many traditional Jewish texts are available online in various Torah databases (electronic versions of the Traditional Jewish Bookshelf). Many of these have advanced search options available. The basis of Jewish law and tradition (halakha) is the Torah (also known as the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses). According to rabbinic tradition, there are 613 commandments in the Torah. Some of these laws are directed only to men or to women, some only to the ancient priestly groups, the Kohanim and Leviyim (members of the tribe of"
"is made up of 8,632 Hebrew letters, 2,264 Hebrew words, and 176 verses, and can occupy about 311 lines in a Torah Scroll (, ""Sefer Torah""). Jews generally read it in late May or June, typically (though not always) on the first Shabbat after Shavuot. As this parashah includes the story of the consecration of the Tabernacle, Jews also read parts of it as Torah readings on the eight days of Hanukkah, when they commemorate the reconsecration of the Temple in Jerusalem. is the Torah reading for the first day; is the Torah reading for the second day; is the"
"and the 12 minor prophets are one book, and also Ezra and Nehemiah form a single book. The differences between the Hebrew Bible and other versions of the Old Testament such as the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac Peshitta, the Latin Vulgate, the Greek Septuagint, the Ethiopian Bible and other canons, are more substantial. Many of these canons include books and sections of books that the others do not. For a more comprehensive discussion of these differences, see Books of the Bible. The Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh) consists of 24 books of the Masoretic Text recognized by Rabbinic Judaism. There is"
"continues: The term occurs 15 times in the Hebrew Bible, a further 7 times in the New Testament, and repeatedly in Second Temple period, intertestamental, rabbinical and patristic literature. The Hebrew word for the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, ""Torah"" (which means ""law"" and was translated into Greek as ""nomos"" or ""Law"") refers to the same five books termed in English ""Pentateuch"" (from Latinised Greek ""five books,"" implying the five books of Moses). According to some scholars, use of the name ""Torah"" to designate the ""Five Books of Moses"" of the Hebrew Bible is clearly documented only from"
"Hebrew slave, firstborn animals, and the three pilgrim festivals. The parashah is the longest weekly Torah portion in the Book of Deuteronomy (although not in the Torah), and is made up of 7,442 Hebrew letters, 1,932 Hebrew words, 126 verses, and 258 lines in a Torah Scroll (, ""Sefer Torah""). Jews generally read it in August or early September. Jews read part of the parashah, which addresses the Three Pilgrim Festivals (, ""Shalosh Regalim""), as the initial Torah reading on the eighth day of Passover when it falls on a weekday and on the second day of Shavuot when it"
"Crime and punishment in the Torah The Hebrew Bible is considered a holy text in most Abrahamic religions. It records a large number of events and laws that are endorsed or proscribed by the God of Israel. Judaism teaches that the Torah contains 613 commandments, many of which deal with crime and punishment, but only the Noahide Laws apply to humanity in general. Most Christian denominations have also adopted some of these directives, such as the Ten Commandments and Great Commandment, while a minority believes all Old Covenant laws have been abrogated. Moses negotiated the Exodus from Egypt with Pharaoh"